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Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… to involvement in the broader political struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Dorothy Zihlangu identifies a successful …
Rethinking the William Fehr Collection
… at the Castle – more or less unchanged – from the 1950s. The core of the collection comprises historical …
EventNew Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
… sanctions against South Africa dates back to the late 1950s. In 1959, the Anti-Apartheid Movement which played a …
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… residents to be humiliated and forced to relocate - in the 1950s an event of the same nature saw Sophiatown residents …
PlaceObservatory
… 1821. It's an arty district locally known as ' Obs '. The main entertainment area is centered around the Lower Main Road. You’ll find quirky restaurants,…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… people had become disillusioned with the ANC by the late 1950s, the PAC claimed, it was because they had seen time and … ANC was relatively weak and had made…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… of ‘revolution in South Africa’ at the close of the 1950s, to the practical steps taken towards this course of … Bantu Authorities in South Africa's rural…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
While colonialism and slavery flourished in the 18th century, the foundations of modern democracy were also being established. It is important to consider the…
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… of the women’s rights organisations that emerged in the 1950s and conducted a massive campaign against apartheid …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… short story Requiem for Sophiatown (destroyed in the late 1950s). Blame Me on History was an examination of what …
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… its own forms of political philosophy. While Joshua’s main interest is Early Modern thought, much of his research … studying Politics and International…
Introduction
… confidence that was evident in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There are two strands in Indian politics in this … Pact of 1947 foreshadowed major events in…
Sadecque Variava
Early life and schooling Sadecque Variava was born on 8 July 1949 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), the fourth of seven…
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… The Defiance Campaign was planned in the 1950s in response to the enactment of numerous apartheid laws …
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the …
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… some people and not others.” [viii] South Africans in the 1950s grew up in a time in which segregation was a part of … South Africa at the end of apartheid…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… a union and fighting for their worker’s rights. One of the main combatants of the domestic workers efforts were the laws … the domestic workers unionisation…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 10 - … for a revolutionary road. More decisively than the 1950s, however, the last ten…
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… South Africa's labour laws for the first time since the 1950s. Non-racial unions agreed to continue their defiance of …
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool
… us back to the late 19th century Cape Colony to the early 1950s covering the family history or the Gools, Rassools, and …
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… Congress (ANC) as a member of the ANC Youth League in the 1950s. After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Ngoyi went …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… the ages of 14 and 28. This provided the Party with its main source of recruits. In 1922, the YCL played an important … Roux impressed upon their fellow YCL…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… whites could play a role in the liberation of Blacks. “The main thing was to get black people to articulate their own … questioned and openly rejected by…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… the great excitement and emotions of the event. Life in 1950s South Africa is also brought vividly into perspective …
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… the message of the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King led blacks in the Montgomery bus …
EventJoe Slovo is born
… leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From 1950s Slovo became a victim of the government repressive …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… was born in 1917. In his early childhood, aged 4 in the 1950s when Tariq’s mother had her back to the wall she was …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… across Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State. 1950s South African music came into International prominence … and Letta Mbulu gained fanatical followings…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… control. Britain renamed the country as Tanganyika. In the 1950s, a popular independence movement emerged to challenge … in African majority-ruled societies…